For the halfway mark of 2021 we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite records and reissues of the year so far. So much great stuff and it feels like the year’s just getting going! Here are everyone’s faves so far, hope you find something new!

Kay

Aaron Frazer Introducing...

Bill Stone Stone (Reissue)

Lucinda Williams Runnin' Down a Dream

Curtis Mayfield Roots (Reissue)

Antonioni Antonioni

Indigo De Souza I Love My Mom (Reissue)

Chai Wink

Renée Reed Renée Reed

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes

MJ Lenderman Ghost of Your Guitar Solo

Jefferson

Andy Stott Never the Right Time (Modern Love)

V/A L'Esprit De Nyege 2020 (Nyege Nyege Tapes)

Georgia Anne Muldrow Vweto III (Mello Music Group)

Thomas Köner Motus (Mille Plateaux)

Damu The Fudgemunk with Archie Shepp and Raw Poetic Ocean Bridges (Redefinition Records)

Beverly Glenn-Copeland ‎Transmissions: The Music of Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Transgressive Records)

Boris with Merzbow ‎2R0I2P0 (Relapse Records)

Herbie Hancock ‎My Point Of View Tone Poet Reissue (Blue Note)

V/A Impulse! Records: Music, Message And The Moment Box Set

DJ Black Low ‎Uwami (Awesome Tapes From Africa)

Mike S

Serpentwithfeet Deacon

Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall The Marfa Tapes

Mdou Moctar Afrique Victime

Buck Meek Two Saviors

Renee Reed Renee Reed

Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams

Black Country, New Road For the First Time

Lucinda Williams Runnin’ Down a Dream

Julia

Lucinda Williams Runnin' Down a Dream

Antonioni Antonioni

Olivia Rodrigo Sour

V/A Native North America Vol. 1 (Reissue)

Juan Wauters Real Life Situations

Ezra

Carl Stone Stolen Car

Dry Cleaning New Long Legs

DJ Black Low Uwami

Facs Present Tense

Gabor Szabo Bacchanel

Renée Reed Renée Reed

Stella Chiweshe Ambuya

Jake

Roger Fakhr Fine Anyway

Trees Graden of Jane Delawney

V/A Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980-1988

Madlib Sound Ancestors

Pauline Anna Strom Angel Tears in Sunlight